Urban Vision, our unique joint venture with Salford City Council and construction group Morrison, supports the city’s continuing regeneration. Responsible for planning and business control, engineering and highways, property and business development support, facilities management and building design, it has played a key part in a fourfold increase in investment in the city’s roads to around £7m year.
400 council employees seconded
By creating a more flexible workforce and enabling staff to work more closely together, Urban Vision has made considerable efficiency savings which can be reinvested in further service improvement.
Capita’s property consultancy
Through partnership with our property consultancy, Capita Symonds, Urban Vision has helped the Council cut property costs while improving the office environment, boosting staff moral and supporting recruitment and training. It has also won new work designing flagship schools under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative. When the Council’s landscape design team was seconded to Urban Vision, it was short of work and jobs were at risk. Two years on, it has a full work load and a good forward pipeline.